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The facepalm moments that make us question our sanity—and swear off sudo for a week.
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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLinux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare — What if you care about AI's environmental impact, privacy holes, and the ethical problems of training on data without the creators' permission? The answer might be to switch to Linux. Yes, Linux.Kate Asks about Mistakes to Avoid — Hey boys-Microsoft has officially gone off the deep end with this AI stuff. I'm pretty sure AI Clippy is pulling the strings behind the scenes. Any tips for escaping to Linux before I get assimilated? What are the big don'ts for a newbie?Jeremy Molina on X — sudo rm -rf ./ on the root directory 😓Lee Ball on X — I thought I was in a backup directory when I did an rm -rf but turned out I'd forgotten the ./ and just went into /var/lib/mysql and not the backup of said directory.ChaoticHuman on X — I think my most major beginner mistake once was something like sudochownuseraccount/ because I wanted to not have to deal with file-ownership-conflicts though I no longer remember what exactly I did. I only remember that it led to completely destroying my Linux-system.Ken Starks on X — What are all these files with a dot before them. They aren't programs. Might as well delete them.PDunn on X — Using fringe distos and too much distrohopping causing loss of time and not being productive. Linux can be a time sink I don't have time for. So I installed Ubuntu and moved on. I just use what works and is easy to maintain. Unplugged contributor here.Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!Chris' Beelink Nix ConfigNix from First Principles: Flake Edition — This guide is a beginner's guide to Nix and related tooling, focusing on the newer nix command, and flake.nix compared to older tools like nix-env and default.nix. It does not require any prior Nix knowledge, and instead builds up the Flake based world from first principles, so that it can serve as an introduction to Nix itself, as well as the concept and uses of Flakes.Pick: Delfin — Delfin is a native client for the Jellyfin media server. It features a fast and clean interface to stream your media in an embedded MPV-based video player.Delfin on FlathubDelfin repoDelfin nix packageA fireside chat with Nextcloud founder Frank Karlitschek - Nextcloud — Part of this talk was on LUP, now you can hear the full thing.

We're following one simple rule to build a Linux desktop so stable it could outlive us.
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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMMicrosoft’s controversial Recall feature for Windows 11 could already be in legal hot waterApple GPT — What We Know About Apple's Work on Generative AIChris' BeeLink — Beelink Ryzen 7 5700U Up to 4.3GHz 8C/16TRV BeeLink Nix configuration.nixSlack - NixOS WikiChris' Win 7 Inspired Lookmusnix — Real-time audio in NixOSBoost Pick: nh — NH reimplements some basic nix commands. Adding functionality on top of the existing solutions, like nixos-rebuild, home-manager cli or nix itself.Pick: gridplayer — Simple VLC-based media player that can play multiple videos at the same time. You can play as many videos as you like, the only limit is your hardware. It supports all video formats that VLC supports (which is all of them). You can save your playlist retaining information about the position, sound volume, loops, aspect ratio, etc.

After months of debate, the Nix community might be coming to a resolution. We'll examine what happened, what's changing.
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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMUsing Tailscale for Android just got a whole lot betterReport on NixOS Governance Discussions - by Chris McDonoughThe NixOS Foundation board announced on April 30 that Eelco Dolstra is stepping down from the board following the recent calls for his resignation.A leadership crisis in the Nix community (LWN) — On April 21, a group of anonymous authors and non-anonymous signatories published a lengthy open letter to the Nix community and Nix founder Eelco Dolstra calling for his resignation from the project.NixOS Foundation board: Giving power to the community - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseNixOS Foundation Board: Constitutional Assembly Appointment - Announcements - NixOS DiscourseFull Email with GrahamChris' s nginx ConfigNixOS Manual: Using DNS validation with web server virtual hostsNixOS Manual: SSL/TLS Certificates with ACMEUnplugged Core MembershipSigning up with an email addressDell OEM Replacement PartsWinamp has announced that it is opening up its source — Winamp has announced that on 24 September 2024, the application's source code will be open to developers worldwide.RcloneShuttle — Upload your files to anywhere - GTK4 GUI for Rclone

Three revelations from Red Hat Summit. Our on-the-ground report will separate fact from hype.
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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMIntroducing image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux — Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a new deployment method that takes a container-native approach to deliver the OS as a bootc container image.Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OverviewImage mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux YouTube Examplepodman-desktop-extension-bootc — Support for bootable OS containers (bootc) and generating disk images.bootc Introduction — Transactional, in-place operating system updates using OCI/Docker container images. bootc is the key component in a broader mission of bootable containers.Show HN: Convert your Containerfile to a bootable OSWhat is InstructLab? — InstructLab is an open source project for enhancing large language models (LLMs) used in generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) applications.InstructLab — InstructLab is a model-agnostic open source AI project that facilitates contributions to Large Language Models (LLMs).instructlab CLI — Command-line interface. Use this to chat with the model or train the model (training consumes the taxonomy data).IBM's Granite code model family is going open source — We're releasing a series of decoder-only Granite code models for code generative tasks, trained with code written in 116 programming languages. The Granite code models family consists of models ranging in size from 3 to 34 billion parameters, in both a base model and instruction-following model variants.ibm-granite/granite-code-models — A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence.Getting Started with Fedora/CentOS bootc — The Fedora/CentOS bootc project generates reference base images that are designed for use with the bootc project. Its goal is to provide a host system easily configurable via container tooling, usable as a container host, but also to allow non-containerized deployments with applications bound to the host context.CentOS/centos-bootc — Create and maintain base bootable container images from Fedora ELN and CentOS Stream packages.LAB Paper: Large-Scale Alignment for ChatBotsSpring Membership Discount — $3 off forever.psitransfer — Simple open source self-hosted file sharing solution. It's an alternative to paid services like Dropbox, WeTransfer.bhh32's food-journal — Command line tool and web application to keep track of my food intake.Pick: URL to PNG — A URL to PNG generator over HTTP with a fairly simple API accessed via query params passed to the server.Bonus Pick: Telegraph — Telegraph is a simple Morse translator, start typing your message to see the resulting Morse code and vice versa.

A few of our go-to tools for one-liner web servers, sharing media directly from folders, and a much needed live Arch server update, and more!
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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMBerlin with Brent — May Meetup, Sat, May 11, 2024, 6:30 PM CESTLinuxfest Northwest 2024 VideosTiny File Manager — Web based File Manager in PHP, Manage your files efficiently and easily with Tiny File Manager and it is a simple, fast and small file manager with a single file.Tiny File Manager Password OptionsTiny File Manager Project Demonoblepayne/tinyfilemanager-flake — nix run github:noblepayne/tinyfilemanager-flakeBig list of http static server one-liners — python -m http.server 8000awesome-webservers: ⚙️ — Collection of one-liner static servers.static-web-server — A cross-platform, high-performance and asynchronous web server for static files-serving. ⚡The smallest Docker image to serve static websitesSelf-Hosted 122: Back to the Future — How Chris created live TV streaming from his local media collection, Alex breaks down the new Open Home Foundation and what it means for self-hosters. Brent's been trying out an open-source AirDrop replacement for all systems, and much more!LocalSend — An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop.🌷 Spring Membership Discount 🌱 — Promo code: MAYSouthEast LinuxFest — June 7-9, 2024 in Charlotte, NC.Boost LINUX Unplugged on Fountain’s WebsitePick: audioserve — Simple personal server to serve audiofiles files from folders. Intended primarily for audio books, but anything with decent folder structure will do.Neofetch is Dead! Here are 7 Alternatives for Your Linux System

The first LinuxFest is back and better than ever. We share stories and friends from one of the best Linux gatherings of the year: LinuxFest Northwest.
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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2024 — An annual open-source event co-produced by Bellingham Linux Users Group, the Information Technology department at BTC, Cascade STEAM, and Jupiter Broadcasting.Bellingham Technical College — At BTC, we're here to help you access the hands-on education that can give you an advantage in today's job market.Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Downloads Now Available — Ubuntu 24.04 is an exciting Long Term Support (LTS) update with this new Linux distribution release being powered by the Linux 6.8 kernel, making use of Netplan for networking on the desktop, features the modernized desktop OS installer, various performance optimizations, and a ton of new features.x32-proxy — UDP and Web Socket proxy server for Behringer and Midas digital mixer control.LinuxFest Northwest YouTubePeyton's GitHubElectromagnetic Field — A non-profit camping festival for those with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things: hackers, artists, geeks, crafters, scientists, and engineers.completenoob's NixOS ZFS on Root Setup — Install NixOS with ZFS on root on a ThinkPad T470 with 24gb Ram and a 1TB nvme ssd.radio-browser.info — This is a community driven effort (like wikipedia) with the aim of collecting as many internet radio and TV stations as possible. Any help is appreciated!Pick: Playlifin — A tool to convert a Youtube Music playlist to a Jellyfin playlists.Pick: Playlifin Voyager — Playlifin Voyager is a tool to export and import playlists from and to your Jellyfin Server.